The Codex Agobardinus is a 9th-century parchment codex containing a collection of the works of the Christian author
Tertullian
Tertullian (; ; 155 – 220 AD) was a prolific Early Christianity, early Christian author from Roman Carthage, Carthage in the Africa (Roman province), Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive co ...
.
It is named after its first owner, the archbishop
Agobard
Agobard of Lyon (–840) was a Spain, Spanish-born priest and archbishop of Lyon, during the Carolingian Renaissance. The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the Byzantine Iconoclasm, iconoclast controversy to Spanish Ado ...
, who gave it to
Lyon Cathedral
Lyon Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic Church architecture, church located on Place Saint-Jean in central Lyon, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Lyon. Begun in 1180 on the ruins of ...
, where it remained until the mid-16th century. It was damaged at some point, and the end is missing. The missing parts are revealed by the table of contents in the front. It currently resides in the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...
in Paris, now Latin 1622.
Contents
*table of contents
*''Ad nationes'', I and II
*''De praescriptione haereticorum'' (incomplete)
*''Scorpiace''
*''De testimonio animae''
*''De corona''
*''De spectaculis''
*''De idololatria'' (incomplete)
*''De anima'' (incomplete)
*''De oratione'' (incomplete)
*''De cultu feminarum'' (incomplete)
*''Ad uxorem''
*''De exhortatione castitatis''
*''De carne Christi'' (incomplete)
References
External links
Codex AgobardinusCodex Agobardinus at Gallica
9th-century manuscripts
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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